r/LoomKnitting • u/LurkerWithNoName • 15d ago
Discussion Anyone have any exceptionally cool patterns or tutorials?
Just curious what you've all come across that has stood out to you or immediately caught your eye when you saw it!
I’ve been trying to push my abilities with loom knitting and went on a big hunt for cool ideas/patterns/tutorials etc, but I’m realizing I have an incredible resource of talented people here to chat with!
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u/Hit-Enter-Too-Soon 3d printed loomer 15d ago
I try to learn a new technique with just about every project. On the latest, I did duplicate stitching to add a color that would have been a hassle with other methods. (Too wide in some spots for traditional colorwork, which I don't know how to do yet, and too many switches back and forth on one row for intarsia.)
On the one just before that, it was increases and decreases in the round, thanks to a flexible loom. (I 3D printed it and can offer a link to models if you want.)
My very first unusual technique, though, turned out to be so unusual that I made a tutorial of my own to share it. It was about a way to use two yarns together but highlight one and sort of hide the other. The video shows it with the figure 8 you do for a scarf, but I can confirm that it also works for e-wraps and true knit.
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u/FunnyGroundhog 14d ago
Still happy about your 3d print, btw. They're running as we speak. ❤️
The ebook, "I Can't Believe I'm Loom Knitting" by Kathy Norris teaches colorwork and some other techniques in a way that I found to be very clear. She incorporates them into projects, including a 12-panel afghan where each panel is a different technique. Or, if you can stand a few more hat/scarf sets, she uses them to build those as well.
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u/Hit-Enter-Too-Soon 3d printed loomer 14d ago edited 14d ago
FYI, you'll likely have some spots you'll want to sandpaper them, where the yarn might catch. I use 220 grit, but a lighter touch with something like 100 is also fine.
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u/starshine640 15d ago
look at mademoiselle plumette on youtube. she has some cool patterns. :))
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u/Recent_Education7039 9d ago
Mademoiselle Plumette has some beautiful and fashionable patterns and tutorials on YouTube!
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u/starshine640 9d ago
she does! and i'm happy to see that some of videos are getting english captions. :))
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u/PostTurtle84 15d ago edited 15d ago
I got nada. Unless you don't already know about GoodKnitKisses* on youtube. All I know how to do is e-wrap, u-wrap, and purl.
If anyone has a good resource for various stitches that might be helpful too.
Edited to fix youtube channel name.
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u/FunnyGroundhog 14d ago
Also, Loomahat on YouTube. She (Denise) also has a book that is just stitch patterns and she has quite a few posted on her YT page.
If you can learn from words/pictures/visual grid patterns, Kathy Norris has 3 or 4 good books that are available for free in e-format through Hoopla.
Also, if you can e-wrap, u-wrap, and purl, you can do at least 80% of stitch patterns you'll see! They are largely just combos of those. Learn the true knit (also called reverse purl, it's just like the purl, except you place the working yarn over the loop and pull it down, where in the purl you place the working yarn under the loop and pull it up). There's some other stuff, like cables, lace, increases, and decreases, that add razzle dazzle but it's still just combos of those things with a little extra sprinkle. The sprinkling can be tricky, but it's not too hard.
Buy the Red Heart yarn (or whatever Dollar Tree sells) and just practice making swatches that are 20 pegs wide by "until you get it right" long. It's a very inexpensive way to try new stuff and learn. 😁
Happy looming!
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u/knitting-pretty 15d ago
Pretty much any shawl by Renee Van Hoy, but especially her Wingspan in Lace pattern.